National Survival: I Supported the Dragon Nation by Hunting Dinosaurs

The bullet pierced through the trunk of the cycad.

The wood fibers exploded into a cloud of debris as they were torn apart by the high-speed projectile, but the tree trunk, which was over forty centimeters thick, was not a steel plate after all.

The Magnum warhead penetrated the entire body, sending wood chips flying at the exit point, and the warhead deflected.

Erhuang was fleeing at full speed.

The three-legged launch posture was already unstable, and with the injured right foreleg tucked in, the entire center of gravity was shifted to the left rear.

The deflected bullet missed the knee.

It pierced Erhuang's gluteus maximus.

"Awooo—!!!"

An unprecedented scream shattered the tranquility of the forest.

Erhuang's hindquarters sprang up suddenly, and the tiger somersaulted halfway through the air in an extremely ungraceful manner before crashing heavily into the ferns, creating a tiger-shaped crater.

The muscle density of second-order creatures far exceeds that of ordinary creatures, and the gluteus maximus is one of the thickest muscle groups in the entire body.

The Magnum bullet penetrated less than four centimeters before getting stuck in the dense muscle fibers, without even touching the bone.

But the location is just too tricky.

Erhuang lay on the ground, its hind legs too heavy to exert any force, its tail stiff, and it turned its head to lick the wound on its buttocks. As soon as its tongue touched the edge of the bullet hole, it withdrew in pain and let out a series of low growls that were both aggrieved and angry.

The chat in the Dragon Kingdom's live stream switched from tense to bursting with laughter in just 0.3 seconds.

"One shot, and you're dead!!!"

"Erhuang: Where is my dignity? Where is my dignity as the king of this forest?!"

"That's hilarious! He was such a tyrant just a moment ago, and now he's crawling on the ground licking ass."

"This angle, this position...it's so precise!"

Lin Fei rushed out from behind Su Tie, his face ashen.

When he was urging the tree to grow, he didn't have time to control its thickness. He intended to block the bullet directly, but he didn't expect the bullet's penetrating power to far exceed his expectations.

The cycad wasn't made of steel; it could only deflect the trajectory, and ended up hitting Erhuang's butt.

In a sense, he was the real killer.

"Erhuang! Erhuang, don't move!" Lin Fei ran to Erhuang's side, squatted down, and reached out to check the wound.

Erhuang turned his head, his beastly eyes glaring at him, his gaze filled with accusation.

The bullet that pierced through the tree you planted hit my butt.

Lin Fei guiltily withdrew his hand.

"I didn't hit him..."

Erhuang let out a muffled groan, the meaning of which was clear: you're in cahoots with the guy who fired the shot.

Lin Fei dared not argue any further and turned to look at the stranger standing thirty meters away with a gun.

Huo Wuji was also stunned, his gaze falling on Lin Fei's face.

Yellow skin, black hair, young, in his early twenties.

People from the Dragon Kingdom.

Lin Fei was also looking at him.

The other person was lean, with high cheekbones, deep-set eyes, and an unhealthy dark brown complexion from repeated exposure to ultraviolet rays and frostbite.

His military uniform was so tattered that only the upper body remained, while the lower body was covered with the fur of some unknown animal, and a Desert Eagle was tucked into his waistband.

Lin Fei opened his mouth and tentatively asked, "You... are you from China?"

Huo Wuji paused for a second, then nodded.

"Changshan, Huo Wuji."

Lin Fei's expression shifted instantly from wariness to surprise, and then to embarrassment.

"Um..." Lin Fei scratched the back of his head, "The tiger you shot belonged to our camp."

Huo Wuji remained silent for three seconds.

He looked down at the Desert Eagle in his hand.

Then he glanced at Erhuang, who was lying on the ground licking his buttocks thirty meters away.

"...It pounced on me first."

"Yes, yes, I know it pounced on you first."

Lin Fei quickly nodded, "Erhuang has gotten too cocky in the forest lately, pouncing on everyone it sees, but it's actually not a bad guy..."

"I recognize it."

Lin Fei was stunned.

Huo Wuji put away his gun and took a few steps toward Erhuang.

He stared at the destructive saber-toothed tiger for a long time, his gaze sweeping from its now-muscular body to the familiar curve of its fangs.

Back then, this tiger wasn't as large as it is now.

Huo Wuji walked up to Erhuang and squatted down.

Erhuang was lying there looking aggrieved. When he saw him approach, it reflexively bared its teeth, but then withdrew them halfway through.

My butt hurts, I'm not in the mood to yell...

Huo Wuji stared into its eyes and said in a deep voice, "You really are a stupid tiger. Have you forgotten about me?"

Erhuang tilted his head to look at him.

A hint of confusion flashed in the beast's eyes, and its nostrils twitched twice.

It smelled it.

Misty Forest.

The human standing next to Zhang Li.

Erhuang's expression changed.

It bared its teeth and retracted, flattening each of its bristling hairs, and let out a low growl.

Then it remembered that it still had a bullet lodged in its rear end.

The bullet was fired by the person in front of me.

Erhuang's beastly eyes changed instantly.

It turned its head to one side, its tail stiffly held upright, refusing to meet Huo Wuji's gaze.

...I've recognized him, but I'll remember this debt.

Huo Wuji's lips twitched.

"You've already reached level two. A bullet to the butt won't kill you."

Erhuang grunted and used his hind legs to shovel dirt onto Huo Wuji's shoes.

Lin Fei was laughing so hard he couldn't stand up straight.

He forced himself to walk forward and squatted down on the other side of Erhuang to examine the wound: "The bullet is stuck in the superficial layer of muscle, it didn't damage the bone or blood vessels. I'll get it out first."

He placed his palm on the skin around the wound on Erhuang's buttocks, activating his plant-based abilities.

A very thin vine emerged from between his fingers, following the trajectory of the bullet and probing into his muscle, like a living pair of tweezers, wrapping around the bullet and slowly pulling it out.

Erhuang's body tensed, his four legs digging four deep trenches in the ground, but he didn't utter a sound.

"It's out." Lin Fei opened his palm, revealing a deformed bullet covered in blood, lying in a small pouch woven from vines.

Erhuang jumped up, kicked his hind legs twice to make sure he could move normally, and then reluctantly gave Lin Fei a look.

You're somewhat useful.

Huo Wuji stood up, shifting his gaze from Erhuang to Lin Fei.

"Who are you?"

"Lin Fei, a plant-based ability user."

Lin Fei wiped the blood off his hands and said seriously, "I am responsible for the camp's logistics and defense."

"Where is the campsite? I've been looking for hours. This forest is getting more and more winding, like a maze."

Lin Fei's expression froze for a moment.

"Um..." he coughed, "it might have something to do with me."

"What do you mean?"

"My superpower can make plants grow. A few days ago, I made all the cycads and vines around the camp grow, forming a defensive circle."

During the induced growth process, the plant's root network spread far underground, stimulating the growth of natural vegetation within a radius of several hundred meters...

Lin Fei's voice grew softer and softer as he spoke.

"You mean, I've been wandering around outside for hours because you blocked the road?"

"It's not that it's completely blocked... it's just... they're growing too densely, making it hard to tell which way to go..."

Huo Wuji looked at him without saying a word.

Lin Fei added, "But the defense is indeed very effective! Small and medium-sized dinosaurs simply can't get in!"

Huo Wuji took a deep breath and swallowed back the words that were about to come out.

That's enough. It's been too long since I've seen my own people; there's no point in arguing about this.

"Take me back."

"Come on, follow me!" Lin Fei breathed a sigh of relief, turned around and led the way. He casually made a mark on the dense vegetation in front of him, and two cycads automatically bent to the sides, making way for a passage just wide enough for two people to walk side by side.

Huo Wuji followed behind, watching the two trees make way for them as if they had eyes, and remained silent for a few seconds.

"Your special ability..."

"Um?"

"You could freeze to death on the ice field."

Lin Feiqian chuckled twice but didn't reply.

Erhuang staggered along at the very back, deliberately tilting his injured buttocks to one side as he walked, his gait so clumsy it was unlike that of a second-tier beast.

It would occasionally turn its head and glare at Huo Wuji, its eyes conveying eight words: "I'll remember you, just you wait."

The three men and one tiger traversed the 200-meter defensive perimeter through vegetation, and the campfire light from the camp came into view.

Li Yue was standing at the camp entrance, a crossbow in her hand, looking tense. She had heard the gunshot and the tiger's roar and was preparing to come out to investigate.

Seeing Lin Fei walk in with a strange man, she warily raised her crossbow.

"One of our own." Lin Fei raised his hand to indicate, "A contestant from the Dragon Country, originally from the Arctic."

Huo Wuji stood at the entrance of the camp, his gaze sweeping across the entire camp.

The giant cycad chevaux-de-frise, the steaming pottery jars on the stone stove, the dromaeosaurid skin hanging on the tree branches to dry, and the neatly stacked roasted marrow and dried meat in the corner.

It has a lively, homey feel.

It has a human touch.

He hadn't smelled this scent in a long time.

Traveling south from the icy plains, relying on the weapons left behind by Zhang Li and his own ancient martial arts skills, he single-handedly carved out a bloody path.

I did consider giving up along the way.

But whenever he was about to give up, he remembered what the young man in the Misty Forest had said when he handed him a Desert Eagle—

"They made it to our camp alive."

Huo Wuji stood there, something churning in his chest.

He didn't let it emerge.

He simply nodded, his voice hoarse: "The organization... I've found it."

Lin Fei patted him on the shoulder and said with a smile, "Eat first. The roasted marrow is fresh out of the oven; it tastes just like sweet potatoes."

Huo Wuji did not move.

"Where's Captain Zhang?"